The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volatilize \Vol"a*til*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Volatilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Volatilizing.] [Cf. F. volatiliser.] To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it
by the action.
--Sir I.
Newton.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to be or become volatile 2 to evaporate or sublime
WordNet
v. make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor [syn: volatilise]
Usage examples of "volatilize".
Sulphur, Mercury, Salt, volatilized and fixed, compose the Azoth, 773-l.
The Brittania, literally blown to bits, more-than-half fused and partially volatilized by the inconceivable fury of the outburst, was hurled in all directions in streamers, droplets, chunks, and masses, each component part urged away from the center of pressure by the ragingly compressed gases of detonation.
During the process of drying which is carried out in a similar manner to the drying of malt, great care is required to prevent overheating, by which the essential oil would become volatilized.
But the low-flying aerial lens was clearly an extremely powerful instrument, and if wielded on the surface to anywhere near its full capacity, it would volatilize hundreds of millibars of gases into the atmosphere, much of it CO2, which according to Sax's single-phase model they did not want, and which in any sensible course of action would stay bonded in the regolith.
But the low-flying aerial lens was clearly an extremely powerful instrument, and if wielded on the surface to anywhere near its full capacity, it would volatilize hundreds of millibars of gases into the atmosphere, much of it CO2, which according to Sax’s single-phase model they did not want, and which in any sensible course of action would stay bonded in the regolith.